CSWC vs. GAIN, PNNT, SCM, GBDC, PFLT, TPVG, PTMN, NMFC, TSLX, and ALTI
Should you be buying Capital Southwest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Southwest include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), and Alvarium Tiedemann (ALTI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Capital Southwest vs.
Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
In the previous week, Capital Southwest had 1 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Capital Southwest and 0 mentions for Gladstone Investment. Gladstone Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Capital Southwest's score of -1.00 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Capital Southwest presently has a consensus target price of $21.88, suggesting a potential upside of 23.03%. Gladstone Investment has a consensus target price of $13.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.63%. Given Capital Southwest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Capital Southwest is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Capital Southwest has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
26.4% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.1% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Investment received 131 more outperform votes than Capital Southwest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.17% of users gave Capital Southwest an outperform vote while only 62.24% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Capital Southwest. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Southwest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 69.10% compared to Capital Southwest's net margin of 33.53%. Capital Southwest's return on equity of 12.21% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
Capital Southwest pays an annual dividend of $2.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Capital Southwest pays out 154.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Investment pays out 57.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Capital Southwest beats Gladstone Investment on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CSWC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Capital Southwest Competitors List
